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Popular High School Teacher Obain Attouoman Deported by Federal Government |
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by Dave Goodman, |
 BOSTON/Fenway - Obain Attouoman, a popular math teacher at Fenway High School, was deported yesterday to his native country of Ivory Coast. Details are sketchy. Parents were alerted to the teacher's deportation through an automated phone call that was transmitted to all student's homes.
LISTEN: David Goodman's radio report on Free Speech News Radio: http://www.fsrn.org/content/teacher-deported/2226
[Reposted from Open Media, a new online alternative news group: www.openmediaboston.org] |
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27 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Education |
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Hundreds of telephone workers demonstrate against shifting burden of health care costs to employees |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 Telephone employees across Massachusetts spearheaded a day of action on May 22 to protest efforts by Verizon and many other employers to force workers to pay more for their health insurance premiums or increase co-pays and deductibles. Earlier this year, Verizon proposed raising premium costs and out-of pocket medical expenses for employees.
[IBEW and CWA unions, Jobs with Justice join with reform organizations in call for health care for all!] |
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25 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Labor : Social Welfare |
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10,000 Strong Boston - A Call to Action |
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by 10,000 Strong Boston, blackstonian (nospam) verizon.net |
 It is time to stand up, take responsibility and be accountable. Who Cares? We do. We doin' good in the hood. Are you tired of the drugs, guns, violence, crime, broken families, lack of guidance and direction. Are you in need of service? Will you serve? Do you need support? Will you support? Together we are 10,000 strong. If one can make a difference, what will 10,000 strong do? Think of it as a mini Million Man March for Boston.
A Rally...A Gathering... A Call to Action: Sunday June 22, 2008, Franklin Park. |
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22 May 2008
Modified: 09:16:08 AM |
Filed under: Announcement / DNC : Education : Environment : Gender : GLBT/Queer : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Media |
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The Walk to Freedom: The Fight for Criminal Record Reform |
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by Sofia Jarrin, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 A coalition of Massachusetts organizations have organized a four-day walk from Worcester to Boston to mobilize for CORI reform, a criminal record checking system that advocates say have kept many workers, mostly people of color, out of jobs. The walk began Sunday in Worcester City Hall and is expected to arrive at Bunker Community College by Thursday around 10:30 am. One of the participating organizations, EPOCA (Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement), is hoping to mobilize as many members of the community on its way to Boston.
VIDEO: See the kickoff of the march in Worcester: http://worcester.indymedia.org/node/27907
AUDIO: Listen to interview with EPOCA and BWA members (click on article to listen to audio): |
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18 May 2008
Modified: 22 May 2008 |
Filed under: News / Labor : Organizing : Politics : Race |
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Radio Free Palestine Broadcasts 18 Hours of Al-Nabka |
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by BIMC editors, |
 On Thursday, May 15th from 12am until 6pm (EDT), "Radio Free Palestine" broadcasted on the 60 years of the Palestinian Nakba, when eighty-five percent of Palestinians living in what is today the state of Israel became refugees. To listen to an archive of this program: http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=2196
RELATED: Philly Indymedia: Mid East Peace Activists cast a Shadow of Mourning over “Israel at 60” Celebration: http://phillyimc.org/en/node/68274 |
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22 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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Free for All: Arabic Music from Gaza Fundraiser |
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by Freeman Z, |
 On Wednesday, April 30, a large coalition of local groups organized a fundraiser for children of Gaza to benefit the Middle East Children's Alliance and the Gaza Mental Health Foundation Inc. 492 Cafe managed sound for the event at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and is now releasing the Gaza Concert recordings. Freeman Z's report is detailed below. |
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13 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Media : Organizing : Politics : Race |
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A Tale of Two Marches |
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by michael horan, michaelhoran (nospam) comcast.net |
 Boston, Mass.--One of the obvious reasons for the historical success of the Walk for Hunger (and biggest differences between it and the May Day event) is its wholly non-ideological nature. But hunger doesn’t occur in a vacuum, ideological or otherwise. It isn’t natural, and it isn’t desirable, but there it is, and it’s growing. Hunger is rooted at a nexus of political, economic, scientific, technological, and spiritual ideologies, making that one hell of a busy rotary indeed.
[Essay on the May Day march in Boston and & Walk for Hunger on the following Saturday. Full text with images, live links and edited video montage of May Day event appears on nosuppertonight.com.] |
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El Salvador Solidarity Activists and Community Organizations Dispute Department of Justice Order |
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by Lisa Fuller, boscispes (nospam) speakeasy.net |
BOSTON, MA: Last January the U.S.-based El Salvador solidarity group—the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)—received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, citing the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 and questioning the organization’s relationship with the leftist Salvadoran political party known as the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation, or FMLN.
[RELATED: Demonstration: Saturday May 17**, at 1PM; in front of the JFK Federal Building (intersection of New Sudbury & Cambridge St, Boston; near Gov’t Center T)] |
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08 May 2008
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Politics : War and Militarism |
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